According to NetComm managing director David Stewart, the fast migration to broadband, especially ADSL, is building the ideal platform for small business and home users to explore new technologies such as digital IP video.

"Many organisations across the security and manufacturing industries, construction, tourism, education and the medical profession are harnessing higher network speeds to bring IP monitoring technology into their day-to-day operations," he said.

The NS4240 and three CCTV cameras would provide four surveillance cameras in close proximity at an entry-level configuration for under AUD$3000.

Built for remote monitoring, NetComm's IP cameras are fully interoperable with key wireless communications protocols such as 802.11, GPRS and GSM. They also offer bandwidth configuration and 'motion detection' so that only meaningful data is captured.

Mike grew up thinking he would become a mathematician, accidentally started motorcycle racing, got a job writing road tests for a motorcycle magazine while at university, and became a writer. As a travelling photojournalist during his early career, his work was published in a dozen languages across 20+ countries. He went on to edit or manage over 50 print publications, with target audiences ranging from pensioners to plumbers, many different sports, many car and motorcycle magazines, with many more in the fields of communication - narrow subject magazines on topics such as advertising, marketing, visual communications, design, presentation and direct marketing. Then came the internet and Mike managed internet projects for Australia's largest multimedia company, Telstra.com.au (Australia's largest Telco), Seek.com.au (Australia's largest employment site), top100.com.au, hitwise.com, and a dozen other internet start-ups before founding Gizmag in 2002. Now he writes and thinks.